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The inaugural Dr. Speedy health award goes to ...

The inaugural Dr. Speedy health award for a lifetime dedication to improving the health and quality of life for people with ME/CFS goes to a man who has taken on the mighty Pinocchio Psychiatrists; a...

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LSE: The medical and psychiatric establishment has to admit and apologise...

LSE: The medical and psychiatric establishment has to admit and apologise for abusing ME/CFS patients   LSE, 21 November 2016:   "the psychiatrisation of conditions like Myalgic Encephalopathy/Chronic...

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Dr Phil Hammond in this week's Private Eye Magazine: ME "is a proven and...

Dr Phil Hammond in this week's Private Eye Magazine: ME "is a proven and classified neuro-immune disorder"

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Sir Simon Wessely (the godfather of PACE): The PACE trial simply made...

Sir Simon Wessely (the godfather of PACE): The PACE trial simply made whatever adjustments they needed in order to get the results they wanted By spoonseeker 9 December 2016:   As for the PACE authors...

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Psychologist Prof Coyne: PACE trial's CBT for ME/CFS is condescending...

Psychologist Prof Coyne on #PACEtrial's CBT for #MEcfs: condescending pseudoscience presented to convince patients that their problems were in their heads from Danish RCT of cognitive behavior therapy...

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Berkeley's lecturer in public health: Bizarre PACE trial response

By David Tuller, lecturer in public health and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley: They have recently argued, in response to Wilshire et al, that it doesn't matter that some...

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PACE trial should acknowledge inefficacy and harmfulness of CBT and GET

By Mark Vink, (Family Physician) the author of the 2016 Review of the PACE trial for which he was nominated for the John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science. If CBT and GET had really been...

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Does the PACE trial represent professional misconduct?

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Dr Keith Geraghty's undeclared conflict of interest

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GETSET: when your mates are the trial steering committee ...

No problem making Endpoint changes during an unblinded trial if your mates who also ignore all the evidence that #MEcfs is a physical disease (PACE trial's Alastair Miller (infectious disease...

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Please SMILE and GETSET for the FUQOFF trial

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Multidisciplinary rehabilitation treatment is not effective for ME/CFS : A...

Review of the FatiGo trial (Vos-Vromans), one of the 13 pieces of evidence NICE will review. FatiGo, a trial with many problems including ignoring its own results. Mark Vink, Alexandra Vink-Niese,...

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The Times: Call for review of ‘flawed’ ME research in Lancet letter

R By Tom Whipple, Science Editor, August 21 2018, 12:01am, The Times More than a hundred academics have joined ten MPs and scores of patient groups from around the world to sign an open letter calling...

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Damning criticism of the flawed #PACEtrial by psychologist Prof Brian Hughes

Damning criticism of the flawed #PACEtrial in a new book by Prof Brian Hughes on the “rampant methodological crisis” in psychology.  'Rampant methodological crisis' - describes how psychologists...

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Is reduced cytotoxic activity in natural killer (NK) cells due to loss of...

Loss of Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 3 ion channel function in natural killer cells from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis patients Hélène CabanasEmail authorView ORCID ID...

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Damning criticism of the flawed ME/CFS Graded exercise therapy Cochrane review

Graded exercise therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective and unsafe. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review Mark Vink, Alexandra Vink-Niese, First Published October 8,...

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Cognitive behavioural therapy for ME/CFS is not effective. Re-analysis of a...

Mark Vink, Alexandra Vink-Niese First Published May 2, 2019 Review Article  Abstract Analysis of the 2008 Cochrane review of cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome shows that seven...

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Work Rehabilitation and Medical Retirement for ME/CFS Patients. A Review and...

Open AccessReview Work Rehabilitation and Medical Retirement for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients. A Review and Appraisal of Diagnostic Strategies by  Mark Vink 1,* and...

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Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Case Report on Controlled Remission of Symptoms by a...

Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Case Report on Controlled Remission of Symptoms by a Dietary Strategy Silvia Maria Lattanzio1* and Francesca Imbesi2 1Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova,...

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Cell-Based Blood Biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue...

Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Cell-Based Blood Biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Daniel Missailidis * , Oana Sanislav , Claire Allan ,...

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First transferable factor in #MEcfs blood?

https://twitter.com/BhupeshPrusty/status/1223242526188089344 »We could have our first transferable factor in #MECFS blood« Big news from Prusty Lab at University of Würzburg! But they need financial...

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Care providers use the knowledge gap about ME/CFS as an excuse for indolence

February 2020  Läkartidningen 117(8):FY3L Project: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Sten Helmfrid Sture Eriksson Abstract Care providers use the knowledge gap about ME/CFS as an...

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21-year old with no underlying medical conditions dies from Corona

A healthy 21-year-old woman has died from coronavirus despite having no underlying health conditions, her family have said. Chloe Middleton's family took to social media to describe the "unimaginable...

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Systematic review: widespread disruption of the autonomic nervous system...

RESEARCH ARTICLE A systematic review of neurological impairments  in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue  syndrome using neuroimaging techniques Rebekah Maksoud,  Stanley du Preez,  Natalie...

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The psychosomatic focus on CBT and GET has delayed scientific understanding...

By David F Marks: "A new properly scientific framework for the understanding of MUS/MECFS is urgently needed, grounded in the biological bases of the illnesses. The psychosomatic focus on CBT and GET...

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